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Report: “Johns Hopkins University Library Staff Digitizes Content to Help with Remote Instruction”
From JHU: “Demand for our services has picked up,” says Liz Mengel, the associate director of Collections & Academic Services at the Sheridan Libraries, which includes Reserves services and digitization efforts. “We’re looking at how to move from print to buying more electronic book options for people, even for disciplines that are more traditionally print. […]
Recently Published Report: “Driven By Demand: Public Library Perspectives on the Elending Market”
From a Report Summary and Analysis via IFLA: New research from Australia has explored how the way eBooks are offered to libraries affect their decisions over what to offer borrowers. Led by Associate Professor Rebecca Giblin of the University of Melbourne law school as part of the international eLending Project (elendingproject.org), this builds on previous […]
Research Libraries: “Historic Pandemic Poses Lasting Impact on Libraries, Scholarship”
From The Brown Daily Herald: The University libraries closed their doors to students and the public and limited the number of staff following an email notice of a COVID-19 case on campus, Deputy University Librarian Nora Dimmock said. “Our main focus (has) turned to teaching and learning and helping to get faculty and students the […]
HathiTrust Announces Emergency Temporary Access Service
From HT: The Emergency Temporary Access Service permits special access for HathiTrust member libraries located in the U.S. that suffer an unexpected or involuntary, temporary disruption to normal operations, such as closure for a public health emergency, requiring the library to be closed to its patrons, or otherwise restrict print collection access services. The service makes it possible for […]
Report: “Video Conferencing Apps Surge from Coronavirus Impact”
From an AppAnnie Blog Post: ZOOM Cloud Meetings topped downloads charts globally throughout February and March, and downloads continue to see elevated downloads through the US, UK and Europe. During the week of March 15-21, ZOOM Cloud Meetings was downloaded 14x more than the weekly average during Q4 2019 in the US, 20x more in the UK, 22x […]
Roundup (March 31, 2020)
A Message from University of Chicago Press Director Garrett Kiely arXiv Announces New COVID-19 Quick Search Biodiversity Heritage Library Records Now Available in WorldCat From Open Access to Open Science, PLOS Biology is Leading Change Google Launches COVID-19 Public Datasets Program Yale Science and Social Science Library Has a New Endowment — and a New […]
HathiTrust Announces Emergency Temporary Access Service
From HT: The Emergency Temporary Access Service permits special access for HathiTrust member libraries located in the U.S. that suffer an unexpected or involuntary, temporary disruption to normal operations, such as closure for a public health emergency, requiring the library to be closed to its patrons, or otherwise restrict print collection access services. The service makes it possible for […]
University of California Issues Policy on Open Access for Theses and Dissertations
From the Office of Scholarly Communication, U. of California: On March 25, 2020, the University of California issued a Policy on Open Access for Theses and Dissertations. The systemwide policy, which aligns with those already in place at individual UC campuses, “requires theses or dissertations prepared at the University to be (1) deposited into an […]
Report: “New York Attorney General Looks Into Zoom’s Privacy Practices”
More Reports Zoom Client Leaks Windows Login Credentials to Attackers (via BleepingComputer) Zoom Meetings aren’t End-to-End Encrypted, Despite Misleading Marketing (via The Intercept) Zoom Sued for Allegedly Illegally Disclosing Personal Data (1) (via Bloomberg) Hackers Take Advantage of Zoom’s Popularity to Push Malware (via Bleeping Computer) From The NY Times: Zoom, the videoconferencing app whose traffic […]